Holy Tango of LiteratureHoly Tango of Literature is a unique and captivating collection mimicking the great writers of literary history. This devilishly witty book has a twist: Each writer's name is rearranged as a title, creating the subject for a parody rendered in the author's style. |
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Contents
Multicolored Argyle Sea Samud Taylor CoUHdge | 8 |
HAS B O Basho | 21 |
Bangles Linger Alien Ginsberg | 30 |
ELLENS SIAMESE TWIN Tennessee Williams | 37 |
An EMail a a Milne | 45 |
Skinny Domicile Emily Dickinson | 51 |
Yoga AlumnaeMaya Angelou | 57 |
Dreary Hot Pork Dorothy Parker | 63 |
DH H D | 69 |
WE LONG BONY DORKS Gwendolyn Brooks | 81 |
Woolen Lady Woody Alien | 86 |
Dammit Dave DavidMamet | 99 |
Notes on Prosody | 117 |
Common terms and phrases
ALLENWOOD AMBROSE anagrams aspirin baking Beatle Betsy BOWMAN Hal chicken CHORUS Claude Garamond croutons dah-DAH dah-DAH dah-DAH dinner Dramatis Personae e.e. cummings ELLEN Oh Elvis Costello Emmis Humor ESTRAGON Estragon's apron exits feet Francis Heaney fucked Garamond George Costanza girl HAL Dave HAL Yes harder than required hear Holy Tango HONEY hummus iambic pentameter ignore the pressure JOHN Joni Mitchell laughing LAURA Oh Laze look Lucky MARTHA meter Metered poetry Moloko never nice smug NICK parolee PAUL PAUL Oh Pause peck poem poetry poets and playwrights R2-D2 Beeps RICHARD RICHARD LESTER RINGO Rockville SADLER says Pooh Siamese twin sleeping song sorry sumo sumo cru sure sweater talking TANGO OF LITERATURE tell thee There's always Pooh things thou thyme and dill TIMMY trips Trochees VLADIMIR Vladimir's apron walk Wilma wonderful wool word www.emmisbooks.com/humor
Bibliographic information
| Title | Holy Tango of Literature |
| Author | Francis Heaney |
| Illustrated by | Richard Thompson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Emmis Books, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1578601592, 9781578601592 |
| Length | 123 pages |
| Subjects | › › Humor / Form / Limericks & Verse Humor / Form / Parodies Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric |
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